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The best hard rock songs of 2025

Q: What was the top hard rock song of 2025?

Combining 2 year-end radio countdowns, the top hard rock song of 2025 is "I Will Not Break" by Disturbed, which appeared on 2 of the lists.

Two radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2025: 93X and 98KUPD. Combining every list, the top hard rock song of 2025 is “I Will Not Break” by Disturbed, which appeared on two of the two countdowns and was voted number one by one of them. Two different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Never Enough” by Turnstile and “Bad Guy” by Falling in Reverse. Three Days Grace was the year’s most-charted artist, with three different songs placing 5 times across the countdowns.

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Top 100 songs of 2025

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Ranked by combined points across every 2025 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	I Will Not Break Disturbed	187	2	#1	1
2	Even If It Kills Me Papa Roach	178	2	#2	–
3	Everything Ends Architects	177	2	#3	–
4	God Is A Weapon Falling in Reverse	171	2	#4	–
5	Specter Bad Omens	146	2	#6	–
6	Caramel Sleep Token	146	2	#5	–
7	Afterlife Evanescence	144	2	#7	–
8	Lachryma Ghost	138	2	#13	–
9	Up From The Bottom Linkin Park	137	2	#8	–
10	Apologies Three Days Grace	132	2	#9	–
11	Kill Me Fast Three Days Grace	106	2	#12	–
12	Making Love To Morgan Wallen Limp Bizkit	102	2	#20	–
13	Bad Guy Falling in Reverse	100	1	#1	1
14	Blur Wage War	100	2	#13	–
15	Dance, Kid, Dance Shinedown	100	2	#21	–
16	Walls Come Down Seether	99	1	#2	–
17	Time Will Heal Volbeat	98	1	#3	–
18	Heavy Is The Crown Linkin Park	97	1	#4	–
19	Mayday Three Days Grace	96	1	#5	–
20	As Alive As You Need to Be Nine Inch Nails	95	1	#6	–
21	Satanized Ghost	94	2	#17	–
22	Awaken Breaking Benjamin	94	1	#7	–
23	What Remains Pop Evil	93	1	#8	–
24	Holy Water The Funeral Portrait	92	1	#9	–
25	Pale Moonlight Dayseeker	91	2	#18	–
26	Black Butterfly Scott Stapp	91	1	#10	–
27	All My Friends A Day To Remember	90	1	#11	–
28	New Way Out Poppy	89	1	#12	–
29	I Refuse Five Finger Death Punch	88	2	#19	–
30	Emergence Sleep Token	88	2	#15	–
31	Infinite Source Deftones	85	2	#14	–
32	Stuck In My Head Sleep Theory	84	1	#17	–
33	The Emptiness Machine Linkin Park	81	1	#20	–
34	The Dam Daughtry	79	1	#22	–
35	Static Sleep Theory	78	2	#24	–
36	Asking for a Friend Foo Fighters	77	1	#24	–
37	Wishful Thinking Pop Evil	76	1	#25	–
38	The End Mammoth	74	1	#26	–
39	House on Sand Nothing More	73	1	#27	–
40	Tombstone Town Dorothy	72	1	#28	–
41	By a Monster's Hand Volbeat	71	1	#29	–
42	Braindead Papa Roach	69	1	#31	–
43	Bored Return to Dust	67	1	#33	–
44	Dying To Love Bad Omens	64	1	#10	–
45	For I Am Death The Pretty Reckless	63	1	#37	–
46	Dark Thoughts The Funeral Portrait	61	1	#39	–
47	As Alive As You Want Me To Be Nine Inch Nails	60	1	#11	–
48	Today's Song Foo Fighters	57	1	#43	–
49	Killing Fields Shinedown	56	1	#44	–
50	The Spell Mammoth	55	1	#45	–
51	End of You Poppy, Amy Lee & Courtney LaPlante	55	2	#22	–
52	Rabbit Hole (Cowards Pt. 1) Chevelle	54	1	#46	–
53	My Only Angel Aerosmith	53	1	#47	–
54	Into Hell I Prevail	52	1	#48	–
55	The Bottom Daughtry	51	1	#49	–
56	I Believe This Consequence Killswitch Engage	49	1	#51	–
57	The Land of Milk and Honey Bush	48	1	#52	–
58	Darkness Always Wins Halestorm	47	1	#53	–
59	Liar Jelly Roll	46	1	#54	–
60	So Far So Fake Pierce The Veil	45	2	#16	–
61	Hurt Dead Poet Society	45	1	#55	–
62	Freefall Nothing More	43	1	#57	–
63	Detroit Badflower	42	1	#58	–
64	The End Five Finger Death Punch	41	1	#59	–
65	The Optimist 10 Years	40	1	#60	–
66	Gods of Rock N' Roll Billy Morrison & Ozzy Osbourne	38	1	#62	–
67	Live Without It Hinder	36	1	#64	–
68	Deadman's Trigger Scott Stapp	35	1	#65	–
69	The Great Unknown Ice Nine Kills	34	1	#66	–
70	Pale Horse Chevelle	33	1	#67	–
71	Jim Bob Quit!! Hardy	32	1	#68	–
72	Waiting for Stevie Pearl Jam	31	1	#69	–
73	The Cost of Giving Up Poppy	30	1	#70	–
74	Crossing the Rubicon Sabaton	29	1	#71	–
75	Fight Like a Girl Evanescence	28	1	#72	–
76	More Than Hate Bilmuri	27	1	#73	–
77	Belly Up Return to Dust	26	1	#74	–
78	Nod Rise Against	24	1	#75	–
79	Tonight We Must Be Warriors Avatar	23	1	#76	–
80	Sticks and Stones Mudvayne	22	1	#77	–
81	Sacred Parkway Drive	21	1	#78	–
82	TokSik Starset	20	1	#79	–
83	World Vs. Peace Point North	19	1	#80	–
84	Bad Luck We Came As Romans	18	1	#81	–
85	Perfect Soul Spiritbox	17	1	#82	–
86	Hollywood Forever Hollywood Undead	16	1	#83	–
87	Chains (The Tower) Fame on Fire	15	1	#84	–
88	Out of Pocket Black Stone Cherry	14	1	#85	–
89	Break the Silence Nevertel	13	1	#86	–
90	Hellbound Autumn Kings	12	1	#87	–
91	Rotten Set It Off	11	1	#88	–
92	Hell Is Empty Memphis May Fire	10	1	#89	–
93	Bout To Lose Dinosaur Pile-Up	9	1	#90	–
94	Fake Grey Daze	8	1	#91	–
95	Paws Badflower	7	1	#92	–
96	Suit Yourself The Black Moods	6	1	#93	–
97	Savior Hollywood Undead	4	1	#95	–
98	NEVER ENOUGH Turnstile	4	1	#25	–
99	Skeletons Reckless Eden	3	1	#96	–
100	Tipping Point Megadeth	2	1	#97	–

Every station’s number one of 2025

Station	Number one song	Countdown
93X	Never Enough Turnstile	93X Top 25 Songs of 2025
98KUPD	Bad Guy Falling in Reverse	98KUPD Top 98 of 2025

All 2025 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2025 ranking

Radio stations count down their listeners’ favorite songs at the end of every year. Each station’s list reflects its own audience, so a song that ruled Los Angeles could miss the top ten in Chicago. To find the songs that defined 2025 everywhere, RockLists gives every appearance percentile-based points (a number one earns 100, the last position earns close to zero) and adds them up across all two qualifying countdowns. Each radio format is ranked separately, so classic rock and hard rock countdowns never shift the hard rock results; use the tabs above to switch formats. Read the full methodology.